capelin

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A small edible marine fish (Mallotus villosus) of northern Atlantic and Pacific waters, related to and resembling the smelt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A small fish of the smelt family found in the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, Mallotus villosus.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Either of two small marine fishes formerly classified in the family Salmonidæ, now within the smelt family Osmeridae: Mallotus villosus, very abundant on the coasts of Greenland, Iceland, Newfoundland, and Alaska; or Mallotus catervarius, found in the North Pacific. The Atlantic variety has been used as a bait for the cod.